In the cosmopolitan fight against chronic diseases like cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and hypertension, the interdisciplinary collaboration seems to hold a new hope for prevention and management. Essentially founded on the confluence or a meeting point of many disciplines, this approach of collaboration will seek to orchestrate the collaboration of biomedical scientists, health care providers, public health professionals, policy makers, and community stakeholders. The collective effort is underlined by the main principles of promoting healthy behavior patterns, nutrition and risk factors, and expanding access to preventive health services and health care. Chronic disease prevention and control is rather multifaceted; therefore, its biological, …show more content…
But the process of such translation, by which scientific knowledge is transformed into practical gains for the benefit of the community, draws on a much larger number of experts and disciplines and needs a wide-ranging set of views. This essay discusses the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary collaboration for community health from a biomedical science perspective. It touches on communication, ethical decision-making, collaboration, professionalism, and how they have an overall effect on building the effectiveness of collaborative efforts in an interdisciplinary component, plus discussing how collaboration would affect the community's health outcomes. In putting it together, we have been driven by the hope that it would help to emphasize the need for an interdisciplinary approach in tackling the complex public health challenges presented by chronic diseases, and that biomedical scientists would appreciate their integral role in such a collective …show more content…
Such self-reflection requires me not only to look at my technical skills and knowledge areas but also how well I would collaborate with other professionals from other diverse disciplines and now how to conduct research and translate its findings to enable applicable solutions that answer to Community Health. The focus of this professional reflection, among other things, extends to knowing the bounds of certain disciplinary approaches and seeking their connections in the course of solving problems that affect the public health. Being a biomedical scientist, I bring along knowledge of molecular and cellular mechanisms of chronic diseases as well as diagnostic tools and therapeutic interventions. Yet I also realize that the handling of such diseases calls for an interdisciplinary approach by healthcare providers, experts in public health, policy makers, and community stakeholders. Professional reflection also involves being
...out sanitation, infrastructure, and hygiene can greatly reduce global health disparities worldwide. In addition, research is another fundamental necessary in ensuring human health quality for individuals. I admire the researchers who commit in finding answers to fight against chronic diseases occurring worldwide. I have significantly respect the researchers who work together in discovering new diseases and treatments affecting individuals globally and not only fulfilling one country’s needs. It is my desire to become one of those researchers in the next ten years contributing in global health and decreasing global health inequalities in order to provide health care equality for every human being living in the world. We need to work together, globally, and collaborate in order to end health inequalities and the pursuit of human equality in the sake of social justice.
Obesity remains an extremely serious issue worldwide. Once considered a problem for wealthier counties, overweight and obesity are now dramatically increasing in low and middle income countries (WHO, 2011). In American, the rates of obesity continue to soar. CDC (2009) recognizes obesity as a risk factor for diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, and other health problems. According to NHANES over two-thirds of the US are overweight or obese, and over one-third are obese (CDC, 2009). Treatment for this illness varies; it may include the incorporation of diet, exercise, behavior modification, medication, and surgery. Since there is no single cause of all overweight and obesity, there is no single way to prevent or treat overweight and obesity that will help everyone (CDC, 2009).
Professional collaboration is an important aspect regarding patient safety in the medical field. This is a time when different kinds off professionals collaborate with one another about a patient’s health status and condition. “Specifically, Interprofessionality is a process by which professionals reflect on and develop ways of practicing that provides an integrated and cohesive answer to the needs of the client/family/population…(involving) continuous interaction and knowledge sharing between professionals” (Black, 2014). The collaboration of different professionals allow for a better decision to be made towards the patient’s health outcomes.
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Recognition of the gap that exist between research finding and their application to practice is growing, DNP must be able to translate newly discovered relevant scientific knowledge into their provision of health care and navigate in the health care system to improve patient outcome. both educational pathway are completing one another, from research to practise , collaboration is an essential skill for all researcher and practitioner in the 21th century health care.
Since 1960 the age-adjusted mortality rates for cardiovascular disease (CVD) has declined steadily in the U.S. due to multiple factors, but still remains one of the primary causes of morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Greater control of risk factors and improved treatments for cardiovascular disease has significantly contributed to this decline (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). In the U.S. alone it claims approximately 830,000 each year and accounts for 1/6 of all deaths under the age of 65 (Weiss and Lonnquist, 2011). Based on the 2007 mortality rate data an average of 1 death every 37 seconds is due to cardiovascular disease (Lloyd-Jones et al., 2009). Controlling and reducing risk factors is crucial for saving lives. There are a number of contributing risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which may appear in the form of hereditary, behavioral, and psychological, all of which ultimately converge in social or cultural factors.
...ntralizing and taking a holistic approach towards health for underserved communities, could lead to improved show rates, as well as, knowledge and communication between patient and health care providers. Especially in under marginalized communities, where advocacy and resources are lacking and needed the most, the manner in which health officials effectively educate and provide the resources to these communities need to be strategically assessed to translate scientific research into practice. With the value and importance of public health increasing, I desire to address the social determinants of health to reduce health disparities through utilization of technology and partnerships with community organizers. Thus, I believe a degree from Oregon State will be an excellent opportunity for me to merge my skills, backgrounds, and passions, turning a vision into reality.
The primary causes of the obesity epidemic is generally an excessive amount of caloric intake, unhealthy eating habits, and lack of physical exercise (“Obesity in latino,” 2006). Obesity in this minority group causes many underlying health issues such as high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and some forms of cancers. Obesity not only effects the wellbeing of individuals, but also has an economic burden on society and healthcare.
A number of health –related behaviors contribute remarkably to the onset cardiovascular disease. Smokers are two times as likely to have a heart attack as non-smokers, and one fifth of the annual 1,000,000 deaths from CVD can be attributed to smoking. A sedentary lifestyle increases one’s risk of heart disease. However, America remains predominantly sedentary, and more than half of American adults do not practice the recommended level of physical activity, while more than one-fourth are completely sedentary Between 20-30%, approximately 58 million people, of the nation’s adults are obese. Obesity severely increases risk for hypertension, high cholesterol, and other chronic diseases which have been proven to cause heart disease. As one can clearly see cardiovascular disease is a very broad topic encom...
Cardiovascular disease, also known as heart disease, is a term used for diseases involving the heart, arteries, capillaries and veins. The problems associated with cardiovascular disease are often a result of atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is caused by a buildup of plaque in artery walls, which disrupts blood flow through the arteries (American Heart Association, 2011). Cardiovascular disease causes a variety of conditions including heart attacks, ischemic stroke, heart failure, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias and heart valve problems (American Heart Association, 2011). These conditions lead to serious health related issues for individuals, including death. Every year there are around 600,000 individuals in the United States that die from cardiovascular disease, making heart disease the leading cause of death in both men and women (CDC, 2014). Although there are ways to decrease the risk of heart disease, the rate has been consistently increasing over the years, costing America billions of dollars in health care services annually. Contributing factors to the rise in heart disease includes the rate of obesity and a lack of physical activity (Dhaliwal, Welborn & Howat, 2013; Poirier, Giles, Bray, Hong, Pi-Sunyer & Eckel, 2006). These articles provide research that answers the question of how obesity and physical activity are linked to cardiovascular disease.
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Currently, 75% of the deaths in the United States are caused by non communicable diseases, NCDs, (CDC, 2016). These NCDs include: heart disease, cancer, hypertension, stroke, obstructive lung disease, diabetes, and obesity (CDC, 2016). In order to decrease the number of deaths caused by NCDs, many health care providers have begun using lifestyle medicine based interventions (Hart, 2102). Lifestyle medicine is defined as the application of simple, natural healing approaches to chronic disease care and prevention (Dysinger, 2013). However, many of these providers do not address NCDs until they have already developed.
Understanding Interdisciplinary Inquiry The underlying characteristic of interdisciplinary is integration. Integration in an assimilation of multiple components in order to combine them throughout your study to create a complete assessment. “The word interdisciplinary consists of two parts: inter and disciplinary. The prefix inter means “between, among, in the midst,” or “derived from two or more.
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Cardiovascular disease is known to be the leading cause of death. One would ponder upon the main cause of such a disease. When it comes to the risk factors, the two main causes of cardiovascular disease are lack of physical activity and unhealthy eating habits. “You are what you eat” is a common phrase, which is used to emphasize the significance of a healthy diet as key to better health. For instance, if an individual consumes unhealthy meals on a daily basis, he or she would accumulate fat in their body and be unhealthy.